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Wood!!
The termite guy came out to see what we had done, and thought everything looked real nice. Then he told us that we just needed to dig a small ditch around the entire room for the chemicals to soak in. I almost cried. I thought the digging was done, but NO! The digging was not […]
DIRT!!!
So, the kids are gonna be in North Carolina for a few weeks. Once we ruled out ‘romantic vacation to Rome’, and ‘buy a sailboat and circumnavigate the world’, well, what was left to do but go in that big room on Ouachita and dig dirt? Especially since we were experiencing one of the driest […]
New Shiny Gutters and the 70′ Freedom Drain
Drainage. The final frontier. We had done all the preliminary work, and now it was time to install our NEW GUTTERS!!!! Zac special ordered them from some industrial nation like Michigan or something, after getting many gutter estimates that failed to impress us. You could put little house gutters on the building for $500. Or […]
Move indoors for a day.
The termite wall. Two guys, one day. And some help from Zac, and it goes from: “Tear Down that Wall”. -code to looking like this: to ending the day with this: Just a touch of plaster, and you’ll never even know this happened. What a cinch.
Gettin’ busy with the brick wall
The tedium that is involved with masonry. The life time of experience, the hours, the patience- we thought we would call in the experts. The “experts” ranged from rocker guy who could do it in a day for cheap, to the decrepit old man with the shaky hands who was more expensive, but liked the […]
The Brick Wall. Before.
In the backyard of the Piano Shop is a beautiful brick wall, complete with arched windows and doorways, and it is a place that should be enjoyed. Part of the process of getting the water out of the building, after the main drain was complete, was getting the water from the roof and backyard to […]
Drainage. Complete.
The secret lives of historic building renovators. What are they doing in there? I know the neighbors wonder, we blocked all view with visqueen, so the windows tell no more secrets. We had to. The wonderful main drain that we have now replaced was done by certified licensed commercial plumbers, and they only worked by […]
The heart of the matter.
February. wow, where did the time go? 8 snow days and freezing weather, that is where! And there is nothing you want to do less than go work in a freezing, poorly lit building when it is too cold to feel your fingers. Especially when you can stay home and sit by the fire. Today […]
The Floor. Don’t tread on me….
Today we headed down to the shop. The dawn of a new year, 2011. It is amazing how you can pretend like it isn’t there, you can pretend that the sleeping giant is dead. You can drive by it on the way to the grocery store, and give it a nod, the “I’ll get to […]